More Puppet Shenanigans

I've really been enjoying my puppetry class this semester. I recently did another solo puppet performance in class. This one had to be musical. Go figure.

If you want to see it click here. Under 2nd Presentation find my name (Will) and click it. Wait for video to load and enjoy. It may take a while to load. It's a big file.

By the way, I made that dinosaur puppet out of a stuffed animal I bought at SAVERS for $4. Pretty cool right? I'll post detailed photos later.

A New Blog Banner

Now 100% less generic.

(Update: I hated the banner I posted yesterday, so it's gone forever. The new new banner is up. I think it's a keeper.)

Leafs (!)

Fall/Autumn is great.  My favorite time of year in fact.  Fall/Autumn is so great that it is the only season that holds the honor of being named twice.  I know right?  Blows my mind too.  Step back Winter; you can't handle the grandeur.

I was messing around with some paint on Sunday and I came up with this.  (gouache and ink)

Korean Hamsters in Various Costumes

A couple of days ago I visited my wife's 6th grade class to help out a bit and listen to a really cool lecture on space by Dr. Ed Gholdston of NASA (but that's another story.)  After the lecture I was sitting in the back of the class drawing zombies as I sometimes do.  While drawing I was being watched by a student named Skyler.  He told me that he likes to draw hamsters.  I asked him to draw one for me.  So he did.  

I give you "Hamster in a Santa Suit."

Skyler first saw this hamster on some Korean stationary that his brother (currently residing in Korea) sent to him.  Skyler likes to dress up the hamster in all kinds of costumes.

Add a sombrero and a maraca and you have "Hamster South of the Border, Down Portugal Way."

I love it.

Image Search Telephone #2

Following up on the last image I entered "pile of dentures" into Google. It only took 3 pages to find this.

I'm not sure why I find this so fascinating.

Image Search Telephone #1

Did you ever play that "Telephone" game when you were a kid? You know, the one where you whisper some normal phrase into someone's ear and they pass it down the line in whispers so that on the other end you end up with a phrase like "purple monkey dishwasher."

Today I played Image Search Telephone. I typed the phrase "out of control rhino on a unicycle" into the Google Image Search and this is what it brought back (10 pages down the results.)

It's just amazing what gets lost in translation. I think I'll follow this one and see where it goes.

Animals Doing Silly Things

Just something quick I did for fun a few days ago.